Lola Odusoga

Iyabode Ololade Remilekun "Lola" Odusoga (previously Wallinkoski; born 30 June 1977 in Turku) is a Finnish model who won the Miss Finland contest in 1996.[1][2][3] In 1997, she won the crown of Miss Scandinavia.[4] On 17 June 1996 at the Miss Universe competition in Las Vegas, she was second-runner up.[5] Her mother is Finnish and her father is Nigerian.

Odusoga in 2009

She married Jarkko Wallinkoski on 12 August 2005. They have two children together: a daughter[6](born 2004) and a son (born 2006). The couple divorced in 2015. She changed her last name back to her maiden name.[7]

References
  1. Jason Edward Lavery (September 30, 2006). The History of Finland. Greenwood. p. 165. ISBN 978-0313328374. Retrieved July 28, 2014. Lola Odusoga miss finland.
  2. "Favorite Misses since 1933: Lola Odusoga" (in Finnish). Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  3. "Miss Universe 1996". Pageantopolis. Archived from the original on July 5, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  4. "Lola Wallinkoski: My kids do not look at the waterfalls". mtv (in Finnish). February 22, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  5. "Do you still remember what it looked like when Lola contested in the Miss Universe 1996 pageant?". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  6. "Lola Wallinkoski and her beautiful daughter". italehi (in Finnish). January 1, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  7. "Lola vaihtoi sukunimensä - on jälleen Odusoga". Iltalehti.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Heli Pirhonen		 Miss Finland
1996		 Succeeded by
Karita Tuomola


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